So do you think your Harley means more to you if you have a short riding season and you rip through it on your season or if it is your DD.

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Mine is my DD I have to have a Harley and have had one or another mostly customs shovels for the last 30 yrs. I still get off it every day head to the door at the office and turn back 2-3 times to look at it.

I can't wait for Saturdays to ride. I have personal reasons for having to have a Harley. No other make will do.

But frankly I go in to a dealership and look at stock or bikes that that dudes lash stuff on and they really hold no interest.

So fess up is Harley more than a mode of transportation or just a way to point A point B

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Without trying to sound to cliche.... riding a Harley is a lifestyle!!

And I envy you for living in a climate where you can make it your DD 24/7/365

 

It's transportation, but not only that. Case in point

Last week I had to go to Santa Barbara from Vegas for work. The weather was expected to be bad. Cold and rainy all through California. I rode the bike.

Coming back last night temperatures were 30 in Victorville, 28 in Baker and 34 in Primm. I was wearing two sets of gloves, two pairs of socks, chaps, 4 layers on top and still when I got to Primm I had to ride around the gas pumps for five minutes before I could work my feet off the floorboards to hold myself up once I stopped.

If the bike was only transportation, I would have driven my truck instead and saved all the wet clothes at work every day and freezing my tukus off coming home last night. I'm still glad I rode the bike. It should be required that everyone ride the 101 north from LA on a bike at least once.

 

Of course it’s a form of transportation because that’s what it does gets you from A to B. I don’t ride for that though, a car is safer, warmer, cooler and just more convenient, I ride because I like to. I’ve also owned a few cars I enjoyed driving as much as I do riding. I’ve also rode for more than seven years on and off where a motorcycle was my only form of transportation, mainly when I was younger except for about the last year and half. I’ve got a car again and I’m happy that I do; only owning a bike is a drag, too much work and planning.

I do ride all year mainly because I live in a place that I can, I also rode year round for six years in New York and there’s no way I would ever do that again. Even now I check the weather before heading out, I’m much more of a fair weather rider today than I was 30 years ago. Road trips are another story pick a date and head out, I expect to have bad weather on a road trip and it’s never failed yet.


I ride because I like too, I feel good when I ride, and I feel a little different than the rest of the world.

 

It's my choice to make it my DD. As long as there's no ice I'm good to go. Any time. I'm very prepared to dress for whatever weather might come my way. I guess you might say I have obsessive compulsive disorder when it comes to my bike! Lol!

 

If you can't wait for Saturdays to ride...does that mean it's not your DD?

I ride any days I can...all year round when I can. Often ride to work...and as part of my work, I go onsite to my clients offices, so I ride around the southeast quarter of my state, sometime a state over.

In the winter up here...once the snow hits, I slow down...ride when the roads are clear and relatively clean from the sand/salt. So that may mean just once or twice a month in Jan/Feb...the main slow down months.

 

One of the hardest things to put into words,other than a Harley is all I have ever wanted,same for the wife.Could carry on for a long time about what these twins mean to us.For both of us Harleys are who we are,our grandfathers, uncles,brothers,have all owned or still do own them.From the first Harley I bought at 14 yrs old have been tearing them apart or building them from the ground up creeping up on 50 yrs.Not daily drivers because of geographical location,would be otherwise.We know we are not alone in our passion,at one time thought we were.

 

Why is that, is it due to bad weather or something else?

 

I rode year round on the Kawasaki I had when I was 16, but that was 30 years ago and I rarely went more than 50 miles from home. That winter was a challenge often I rode with several inches of snow on the road.
I still never put the bike away for winter but Dec-Feb I'd consider my truck to be my daily driver. The bike is my daily driver April-October.
Stock bike, custom, old, new, brand. Doesn't matter to me as long as the owner enjoys it.

 

It snows in New York; riding motorcycles in the snow is not fun, you have black ice everywhere and this was before the days of heated gear, even with that I still wouldn't do it again. Around the block for a blast maybe, but it was my DD then, I get cold just thinking about how cold I got riding in February when it was like 14 degrees, then factor in a wind chill, nope not for me.